search and rescue mission

The Dutch association for climbing and mountaineering NKBV launched a search and rescue mission in the Himalayas in Nepal for Dutch mountaineer Christiaan Wilson. Wilson has been missing there for two weeks

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has confirmed that both Marc Cornelissen and Philip de Roo are presumed drowned. A recovery operation is underway to find the bodies of the two arctic explorers, Canadian newspaper CBC news reports.

Four members of the Dutch Urban Search and Rescue Team started exploring Gorkha on Tuesday. This area is closer to the epicenter of the earthquake, northwest of Kathmandu, the team said in their latest update about the search and rescue mission in Nepal.